Legal Barbarians: Identity, Modern Comparative Law and the Global South
Sep 2021 · Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Book 157 · Cambridge University Press
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In this novel and unorthodox historical analysis of modern comparative law, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado explores the connections between modern comparative law and the identity of the modern legal subject. Narratives created by modern comparative law shed light on the role played by law in the construction of modern individual and collective identities. This study first examines the relationship between identity, law, and narrative. Second, it explores the moments of emergence and transformation of this area of law: instrumental comparative studies, comparative legislative studies, and comparative law as an autonomous discipline. Finally, it analyzes the theoretical perspectives that question the narrative created by modern comparative law: Third World Approaches to International Law, postcolonial studies of law, and critical comparative law. For lawyers and legal scholars, this study brings a nuanced understanding of the connections between the theory of modern comparative law and contemporary practical legal and political issues.
About the author
Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is Full Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and visiting positions at, among others, Yale Law School, Sciences Po-Paris School of Law and Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is the editor of Constitutionalism of the Global South (Cambridge, 2013).
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